Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

Once a realm of imagination and stargazing, the Solar System has now been revealed in stunning clarity through decades of ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

The series follows a number of human factions on Earth, Mars, and living aboard the larger objects in the asteroid belt. The wave of exploration, colonization, and News ...

Indeed, our own solar system's asteroid belt is considered to be a "failed planet" of sorts; there are multiple small spherical bodies that make up the asteroid belt, including Ceres, Vesta, and ...

A new SPHERE/VLT image of Hygiea, which could be the Solar System’s smallest dwarf planet yet. As an object in the main asteroid belt, Hygiea satisfies right away three of the four requirements ...

The first asteroid belt ever seen outside the solar system is more complex than expected, astronomers found, using observations by the James Webb Space Telescope. Looking at the warm dust around a ...

There are five known dwarf planets in our solar system. One of them is named Ceres, after the ... It has a diameter of over 620 miles and is located in the asteroid belt. For a long time, it has ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? There are more than a million objects in the Solar System’s asteroid belt. NASA ...

There’s a new object in the distant reaches of our solar system, and it might just offer clues to a long-standing cosmic mystery. Astronomers have cataloged a frozen minor planet called 2017 ...

Our Solar System possibly survived a supernova because of how the Sun formed The gas that produce stars also cushion them from the blast of nearby supernovae.